Simon Peyton Jones

So back in 1980, nobody would have said, we're definitely going to do functional programming and it's going to be useful for practical applications.

They said, that's pretty weird.

You know, by all means, give it a try, guys.

And that's kind of what I am with Verse.

One difference is that back in 1980, we were purely academics.

And now, but Verse is being developed by, well, Epic Games.

So we got much more muscle behind it than was behind functional programming to begin with.

So we'll see.

It's a very interesting intellectual endeavor.

Adventure, I should say.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So I think people would like to be worried in the sense that I think there's going to be considerable dislocation.

If you were in the Industrial Revolution, then lots of people lost their jobs as spinners and weavers.

And it wasn't easy for them to get a new job in the new economy.

Now, the new economy had, in the end, had more jobs.

But if you were one of the people who just lost their job, that was not a happy place to be.

From our perspective, Olympian perspective of a few hundred years later, we think, well, it's just a blip.

If you're part of the blip,

problem right so i think the right to be worried um we don't know how things will shake out i'm actually optimistic that in the medium term if we don't you know destroy ourselves with some truly existential thing but from an employment market point of view i'm optimistic that in the end you know we'll just be in a higher place that ais will just be a a bigger power tool i mean